Security News > 2024 > May > French hospital CHC-SV refuses to pay LockBit extortion demand
The Hôpital de Cannes - Simone Veil in France announced it received a ransom demand from the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware gang, saying they refuse to pay the ransom.
Yesterday, the establishment announced on X that it has received a ransom demand by the Lockbit 3.0 ransomware operation, which it forwarded to the Gendarmerie and the National Agency for Information Systems Security.
At the same time, the LockBit ransomware group added CHC-SV on their extortion portal on the darkweb, threatening to leak the first sample pack of files stolen during the attack by the end of the day.
The healthcare organization tweeted that they will not pay the ransom and promised to inform impacted individuals if the threat actors begin leaking data.
FBI's disruption of the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service operation via 'Operation Cronos' and the simultaneous release of a decryptor in mid February 2024, have had an adverse impact on the threat group.
Despite the disruption, the ransomware project performed a restart only a week later, setting up new data leak sites and using updated encryptors and ransom notes.